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Mitsubishi Magna
I direct you to criteria number 5 of Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles/Conventions#Minimum image standards:
The image selected for an article's top (lead) infobox does not need to show any particular version or generation of the vehicle, such as the latest, the last, the first, the best-selling, or any other. However, the image must be representative; low-volume, obscure/unusual, or otherwise unrepresentative variants are generally not preferred for the lead infobox image. Vehicle production date is not a factor when determining the quality of an image and its suitability to illustrate the lead infobox. Regardless of the ages of the vehicle shown, pick a clear, high-quality image according to the image quality guidelines; one that clearly shows a vehicle relevant to the article without photoflash glare or other photographic faults, against a simple and contrasting background. Such an image is always to be preferred over a lower-quality image, such as one that shows photoflash glare or a distracting background.
OSX (talk • contributions) 14:25, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
New to wiki and hope this will be posted appropriately.
Your attention is drawn to criterion 8 and 9 of Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles/Conventions#Minimum image standards:
8) In pictures of private cars, license plates and other personally-identifying information shall be blurred or edited out. If you are photographing your own vehicle, remove the license plate. 9) The caption must clearly identify the vehicle. The year or model year (single year or range), model code, or any other relevant descriptor (for example, "pre-facelift" and "facelift") should be included in the image caption. If available, the trim level should also be included.
Your photograph may arguably (and barely) meet criterion 5, but it blatantly breaches 8 by displaying a private number plate and failing to identify the model name or code. It could just as easily be an Executive or Advance - any attempts on your part to add this missing descriptor must fail in the absence of a photograph of the same vehicle from the rear, showing the relevant designation badge.
As to criterion 5, your photograph is also unsuitable because the vehicle photographed appears damaged (front right fender dent) and it is quite an ordinary unknown model of the TE series, which series is well represented in the rest of the article.
More importantly, following the practice of the authoritative Australian media (refer to anniversary edition of Wheels (magazine)), the Mitsubishi Magna is represented by the first TM-TP series as the genesis of not just this vehicle but a whole new medium-large class in Australia that has lead to other competitors, such as the Toyota Camry.
You have also been directed to a tangible example, in the form of the online article at http://www.drive.com.au/motor-feature/a-salute-to-australias-10-most-important-cars-20120119-1q7ik.html . You are now also referred to the National Motor Museum, Birdwood in South Australia, which exhibits none other than a first generation model of the Australian made Magna. The only other Magna exhibited is a KE Verada whose relevance is that it is the first major export Magna model - https://www.flickr.com/photos/aussiefordadverts/9543569093
The TE Magna you have photographed is a lesser representative vehicle overall.
It should be noted you also mistakenly rejected the picture of a TJ Magna VR-X (in alternative to the more apt TN Magna Elite now shown) on the wrong claim that it is or was an obscure model. Please note that the VR-X was a standard model in the Magna range (from TJ series) and one of the longest serving nomenclatures to date, unlike your TE's Executive and/or Advance.
Finally, whether or not the majority of TM-TP models have now been "crushed", as you claim, is as irrelevant a claim as your insistence on the privately-owned and unknown TE model photographed by you. If numbers on the road were a criterion, all models out of production would not feature on wiki, or specialised automotive publications, at all.
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